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Bonds made his long-shot request of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. A
three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit upheld Bonds’ conviction in September. A jury found him guilty
in April 2011. The jury deadlocked on three other counts that Bonds made false statements stemming
from his denial that he knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs, and those charges were later
dismissed.

Bonds is asking the court to assemble a special panel of 11 judges to rehear the case. The court
seldom grants those requests. It would take a majority vote of the 27 active judges on the court to
reopen Bonds’ case. If the appeals court turns down his request, Bonds’ next and final step would
be to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case.

Sullinger, a Northland grad and former Ohio State player, pleaded not guilty last month to
charges including assault and battery and intimidation of a witness after his girlfriend told
police he repeatedly had pinned her to a bed and the floor on Aug. 31.

A judge in Waltham, Mass., granted a defense motion to dismiss the charges after the alleged
victim reported she would invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and would not
testify in the case.

• A 27-year-old Sioux Falls, S.D., man accused of killing the 2-year-old son of Minnesota
Vikings running back
Adrian Peterson pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Joseph Robert Patterson is being held on a $750,000 bond on charges of
second-degree murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault and aggravated battery.

Patterson is charged with assaulting
Tyrese Robert Ruffin in a Sioux Falls apartment. Patterson is the boyfriend of
Tyrese’s mother.

A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for January.

Golf

LPGA Tour waives age rule to allow Ko to play

The LPGA Tour waived its age requirement of 18 for
Lydia Ko, clearing the way for the 16-year-old from New Zealand to join the tour
for the 2014 season.

Ko already is a two-time champion, having won the Women’s Canadian Open at 15 last year to
become the youngest winner in LPGA Tour history, and successfully defending her title this past
summer. Born in South Korea and raised in New Zealand, Ko already is No. 5 in the world
ranking.

Soccer

U.S. women’s team to work out at Crew Stadium today

The U.S. women’s national team will hold a training session at 4 p.m. today in Crew Stadium. It
is open to the public, and admission is free.

Ticket information for the team’s exhibition against New Zealand on Wednesday night at Crew
Stadium can be found at ussoccer.com.